On its 25th anniversary, the UN Trust Fund launches Annual Report for 2020, which highlights the results of funded civil society and women’s rights organizations despite the challenges of COVID-19. During 2020, UN Trust Fund grantees adapted swiftly to help protect and support women and girls during the unprecedented global crisis sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women’s (UN Trust Fund) Strategic Plan 2021-2025 is grounded in the right of all women and girls to live free of violence. It seeks to achieve this goal through global solidarity and partnerships that enable civil society organizations, especially women’s rights organizations, to deliver survivor-centred and demand-driven initiatives to help feminist movements grow globally.

Report of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women on the activities of the United Nations Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence against Women 2021.

In 2020, the UN Trust Fund engaged an independent, external evaluation team to produce a meta-analysis based on 30 high-quality external evaluations commissioned by its grantees in 26 countries covering projects implemented between 2015-2019.

Six months into the crisis, the UN Trust Fund’s second assessment shows that the continued economic insecurity and movement restrictions are still driving increased violence against women and girls.

The UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women 2019 Annual Report looks at the work of UN Trust Fund-funded civil society organizations during 2019, where over 2 million people were reached through just 61 projects, and highlights their extraordinary achievements through the year in working to end the long existing pandemic of violence against women.

As part of its initial response to the COVID-19 crisis, the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women mapped its grantees to assess the impact of the pandemic and associated lockdowns.

Report of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women on the activities of the United Nations Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence against Women 2020.

The UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women Annual Report 2018: Road to Change, shows results and successes of UN Trust Fund grantees in 2018. It highlights achievements in grantees’ work to ensure access to multisectoral services, prevent violence, strengthen the implementation of laws, policies and national action plans, and to leave no one behind.

The technical annex to the UN Trust Fund’s Annual Report 2018 provides an update on the UN Trust Fund’s Strategic Plan Results Framework 2015-2020, which was first published on 30 September 2015. This is the second time the UN Trust Fund has published an update to the Results Framework externally and new data collected in 2018 has been presented against targets set for that year.

Report of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women on the activities of the United Nations Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence against Women 2019.

The technical annex to the UN Trust Fund’s Annual Report 2017 provides an update on the UN Trust Fund’s Strategic Plan Results Framework 2015-2020, which was first published on 30 September 2015. This is the first Results Framework produced by the UN Trust Fund in its 20-year history.

The UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women Annual Report 2017: Generating Sustainability, highlights the life-changing results of our grantees working to prevent and end violence against women and girls around the world. It also aims to show our increased investment and efforts in building capacity and ensuring sustainability of our grantees.

Report of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women on the activities of the United Nations Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence against Women 2018.

Preventing violence against women and girls is a key element of most projects funded by the UN Trust Fund. Because early intervention at an age when social attitudes are being formed is especially important for effecting change, the UN Trust Fund supports many projects that aim to make schools and other educational settings safe places for girls, where they are empowered to develop their human rights potential free from violence.

The UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women (UN Trust Fund) recognizes the often acute and high levels of global violence against indigenous women, including femicides and disappearances. For this reason, many of the projects it supports aim to prevent violence or ddress the factors that contribute to violence against indigenous women.

Women and girls with disabilities experience many of the same forms of violence all women and girls experience (e.g. psychological, physical, sexual and economic abuse). However, they suffer up to three times greater risk of rape, are twice as likely to be survivors of domestic violence and other forms of gender-based violence and are likely to experience abuse over a longer period and with more severe injuries than women without disabilities.The UN Trust Fund supports projects to end violence against women and girls with disabilities.

The UN Trust Fund has established a special funding window that supports organizations which specifically address violence against women and girls in the context of humanitarian crises and disaster response. Under this window, the UN Trust Fund is currently investing US$2.5 million in five organizations. Three organizations in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) and two in Jordan are the current beneficiaries of this funding.

The UN Trust Fund is investing more than US$22 million to end violence against underserved and marginalized women and girls to ensure that no one is left behind. The UN Trust Fund invests in improving the delivery of services and transforming harmful, discriminatory attitudes to prevent and end violence against LBT women.

The UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women’s (UN Trust Fund) 2016 Annual Report includes progress and milestones from the past year. In 2016, UN Trust Fund grantees reached 6 million people with their programmes to prevent and end all forms of violence against women and girls that are being implemented around the world.